Range finder for golf clubs



March 24. 1925. 1,530,596

E. R. DYE

RANGE FINDER FOR GOLF CLUBS Filed May 12, 1924 A? i/O /6 Inc/e 76%?! Edward 1?, @a,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD R. DYE, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

RANGE FINDER FOR GOLF CLUBS.

Application filed May 12, 1924. Serial No. 712,570.

To all whom it may concern: concave notch 9, on one side to receive the lie it known that I, EDWARD R. DYE, a handle. It also has a screw hole 10, leadcitizen of the United States residing at ing to the notch from the opposite side of Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and the ball, the inner end of which may be State of Indiana, have invented a new and somewhat enlarged to receive a nut 11, on 55 useful Range Finder for Golf Clubs, of a metal band 12. The band surrounds the which the following is a specification. handle and has the nut 11 fastened between This invention is an attachment for golf its ends in any secure manner. clubs such as a driver, brassle, cleek, mld- A screw 13 passes through the hole 10,

iron, mashie, niblick, putter or the like, and and is screwed into a threaded hole in the m the object is to provide an attachment which nut 11. A washer 14 is interposed between may readily be applied to and removed from the ball and the screwhead. the handle of any club, and which may be In practice the loose band with the ball easily adjusted after a few trial shots to attached, is slipped into an approximate po- 15 such position as will enable the player 211- sition on the handle 7 where it is temporari- 65 ways thereafter to instantly grasp the hen 1y fixed by tightening the screw 13. Thedle and so hold it during a drive as to cause lug 8 is grasped between the index and the the club-head to strike the ball squarely second finger of the hand of the player and and at the right angle to insure the desired if found on trial not to be in position to if) angle, left, or range, of the driven ball. properly present the head 6 to the golf ball, 7

I accomplish the above and other minor the screw 13 is loosened sufficiently to allow objects which will hereinafter appear, by the band and lug to be shifted to a closer the means illustrated in the accompanying position and this is repeated until the right drawing in which-- place is found by trial, whereupon the screw :3 Fig. 1, is a side elevation of a driver, is so tightened as to thereafter hold the lug 7 wit-h my attachment, showing the manner in where it will remain just right for further which the attachment is grasped by the 0011- use by that player. trolling hand of the player, his other hand Having thus fully described my invention, not being shown in order not to cover the what I claim as new and wish to secure by attachment in this view. Letters-Patent, is-

Fig. 2, is a rear elevation of the same 1. The combination with a golf club havclub provided with my attachment. ing a handle member, of a clamp-band sur- Fig. 3, is a cross section on a larger scale, rounding the handle, an elastic ball-like through the line 38 of Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 member, and means connected with the band 5 shows the dismembered parts of my attachfor impinging the elastic member against ment. the handle.

Like characters of reference indicate like 2. The combination with a golf club havparts in the several views of the drawing. ing a handle-member, of a clamp-band sur- I have here illustrated a driver 5, having rounding the handle, an elastic ball-like 4 a head 6 and handle 7, all of usual construcmember, a screw-means connected with the 94, tion, but the invention is equally applicable band, and means cooperating with the screw to other golf clubs and it will be understood to impinge the elastic member with reguthat my attachment is to be so used. lated compression against the handle.

My attachment essentially comprises a 3. The combination, with a golf club havlug 8, here shown as a flattened rubber ball, ing a handle portion, of a clamp-bandsurfixed to the handle 7 in proper position to rounding the handle, a nut to which the ends be impinged between the in ex and second of the clamp-band are fastened, a screw enfinger of the players leadin hand, or hand tering the nut and having a head, and a with which he first grasps t e handle. The member between the head of the screw and member 8 is normally spherical and has a the handle through which the band ends are drawn by the screw to tighten the band on elastic cover member surrounding the nut the handle. and screw and impinged between the screw 4. The combination, with a golf club havhead and handle by tightening the screw. 10 ing a handle portion, of a clam -band sur- Signed at Indianapolis, in the county of 5 rounding the handle, anut to WhlCh the ends Marion and State of Indiana, this 9th day of the clamp-band are fastened, a screw of May, 1924. entering the nut andhaving a head, and an EDWARD R. DYE. 

